Activities at Sutton Valence Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
Our activities team are great at building the activities programme around the likes and interests of the people we care for. Ensuring that our social events offer fun and adventure is part of the ethos of our home; it’s important that those we support can enjoy an active and social lifestyle. Of course, there will always be those who prefer peace and quiet, and in these instances, a cup of tea and a chat are always welcomed.
Jacinta Wilson
The job description of Activities Coordinator fitted me perfectly and brought me out of retirement; I did miss the social aspect of working life... Enriching resident’s lives through art & crafts coupled with a vibrant caring nature is me to at T. I have a passion to give our residents access to their own self-esteem and confidence. Re-gain, explore or enhance their quality of Winter Life. Share the tools to make each moment the best it can be and if, it's, not then let's explore why? My team buddy laughs with me when I recall or mention Golden/Platinum moments I've been blessed with. I witness them every day. Finding a way to give purpose to a day is a mission of mine and I do my very best for our resident family to gain that.
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Sutton Valence Care Home
Reiki Session
Reiki is the highest and most profound vibration of life ...
Can you image when we introduced Nick and Reiki?
Asking our family residents what they thought it was gave up some absolutely splendid guesses... A type of food, New game, Culture costume, Are but a few.
When Nick explained about Reiki scepticism fell upon several of our residents faces and the quizzical looks were beyond fabulous. Wished I captured them BUT I did capture their Reiki experience.
Eileen afterwards told me she'd never felt so calm and at peace. Eileen just wished to sit in the quiet and stay in the moment.
Adele hugged us with such gusto as the moment overwhelmed her. Some of our resident's family also joined in.
Our next session will be open to you all. More details will be posted when we've arranged dates.
Flowers don't show; they tell...
A stroll to the local Flower Show which was arranged by Sutton Valence Gardening Association was a must for the day. Our Lynn was ready for the sunshine; umbrella at the ready and Maureen sported her Sunday best.
We were joined by Ann's son, Lee, who spent some extra special time with his Mum and met a few of her friends.
Our eyes were treated to first class home grown vegetable; some of them were extraordinarily large!
The selection and floral aroma tickled our smell but on a personal note the exceptionally large pink hydrangeas made my hair stand on end ... SO magical Sent me down a memory lane of my hero called Dad.
It's amazing how we attach memories to flowers; isn't it?
CARE HOME HAS A ‘LATTE’ FUN AT MACMILLAN COFFEE MORNING
Staff and residents at Sutton Valence care home in Sutton Valence held a charity coffee morning and bake sale on Wednesday 27th September to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.
Having a coffee morning is the perfect chance to catch up over a cuppa and a slice of something delicious for a great cause. The money raised helps everyone with cancer to live life as fully as they can.
Residents enjoyed spending time with friends and relatives, and members of the local community. Head chef, Suraj, had baked lots of lovely cake for everyone to sample and for guests to buy to take home.
Sutton Valence’s coffee morning was a big success - they managed to raise funds for MacMillan and, most importantly, everyone had a great time doing it!
Robert Dura-May, Senior General Manager at Sutton Valence Care Home, said: “Our Macmillan coffee morning has been a huge amount of fun, everyone at the home is always keen to support this fantastic charity in any way we can. We are very glad to be able to do our bit to raise further awareness for MacMillan and money for the charity.”
A resident at the home, commented: “MacMillan is such a fantastic charity and they do such amazing work in the community, we all love raising money for them and the best bit is, we get to each cake at the same time!”
CENTURY CELEBRATIONS FOR LOCAL CARE HOME RESIDENT
Celebrations have been in full swing at Sutton Valence care home, as one of its residents reaches her centenary in style.
Dorothy was joined by staff, and relatives as she received a telegram from the King in recognition of her landmark birthday. A morning tea party was held at the home where she enjoyed a special birthday cake.
Dorothy was a stay at home mum and later became a doctor’s receptionist. Dorothy’s real passion in life was the theatre, acting and singing. During the war, Dorothy travelled all around the country singing to our troops on Bandstands including Brighton and Folkestone.
Robert Dura-May, Senior General Manager of Barchester Sutton Valence added: “We’re delighted to be celebrating a truly remarkable woman as she reaches this amazing milestone. Dorothy is such a popular resident who always has an interesting tale to tell, and we look forward to hearing many more as she breaks into her next century.”
Planting a Tree of Remembrance
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
Our gardening guru Norman helped plant a fruit bearing Cherry Tree with our head Gardener, Peter. Hopefully next year we’ll be enjoying the cherries.
Norman then plucked the runner beans to give to chef Suraj to be cooked and served with our lunchtime meal.
Norman said he really enjoyed planting a tree for the future and “it’s been a long time” since he had picked beans.
The tree is also going to be used in remembrance of all those who have given there lives to give us today's freedom.
On remembrance Sunday a special cross will be placed underneath the tree as a mark of respect.
Runner bean picking
Well it was so worth nurturing those runner beans judging from the smiles on Head Chef's face, Suraj and Norman's, resident family member. Norman retorted that he'd not picked runner beans in a long time and would like to start getting involved with the Gardening club. So we joined him up and he'll soon have his own patch to tend with the help of Head Gardener, Peter. OG plants and produce gave us the veg and herb plants.
